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BART called in a state mediator to try to break the deadlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the contracts expire Sunday at midnight without a deal, union bargaining teams are now authorized to call a strike, and Bay Area commuters are nervous. Tom Radulovich, president of the BART board of directors, asked Gov. Jerry Brown not to impose a 60-day cooling-off period, which would shift a potential work stoppage into a busier season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as crucially, the issues of pension and health care contributions, salary increases and work rules should be settled now and not postponed,” Radulovich \u003ca href=\"http://bartlabornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BART-Board-President-letter-to-Governor.pdf\">wrote to Brown yesterday\u003c/a>. “An unnecessary delay of 60 days would only put off hard choices that will have to be made in order to reach an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A BART shutdown may be disastrous, warn transit officials. 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Telecommuting will be encouraged, as well as carpooling or using alternative transit services such as Alameda-Contra Costa Transit buses or ferries across the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART provides about 400,000 rides daily, including 96,000 across the Bay in the Transbay Tube during peak commute hours, which is 50% more than when BART workers last held a strike in 1997, Heminger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that, \"the impact is likely to be even more substantial,\" Heminger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The supplemental services ... can in no way fully replace BART's capacity in the event of a work stoppage,\" Heminger wrote in his request to the commission. \"But these services can make a bad situation somewhat better for a considerable number of travelers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R908140900\" target=\"_blank\">when BART workers voted to authorize a strike\u003c/a>, contingency preparations were made before the strike was averted at the last minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a very legitimate fear that the city is going to be paralyzed,” San Francisco Supervisor David Campos said. “We rely heavily on the BART system. I am very worried about what it would mean for the city.” He said he was unaware of any city contingency plan should BART shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other transportation agencies are balking at trying to pick up BART’s slack. Members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu192.org/\">ATU Local 192\u003c/a>, representing AC Transit workers, also have authorized a strike for a contract set to expire Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ATU Local 192 President Yvonne Williams called absorbing BART’s 400,000 daily riders “probably impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We carry close to 200,000 passengers a day,” she said. “We’re not equipped or able to absorb the additional 400,000 passengers a day, and we feel that would place our operators and the riding public in imminent danger.” Williams stopped short of saying AC Transit would strike if BART does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides in the BART negotiations are back at the bargaining table today. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, June 30:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/30/bart-strike-deadline-update-jerry-brown-enters-talks\" target=\"_blank\">BART Strike Deadline Update\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Alex Emslie and Peter Lollo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents are one step closer to a commuting nightmare as BART employees, represented by the transit agency's two biggest unions, authorized a strike Tuesday night. The vote was nearly unanimous. If negotiations continue to stall, the system -- which carries an average of 400,000 passengers a day -- could shut down Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101395\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/bart-strike/bart-9/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101395\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101395\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/bart-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Saul Almanza, BART track safety trainer and SEIU 1021 vice president of BART professional chapter, stands at a June 25 rally at 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco calling attention to safety issues the union says are plaguing the BART system.\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saul Almanza, BART track safety trainer and SEIU 1021 vice president of BART professional chapter, stands at a June 25 rally at 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco calling attention to safety issues the union says are plaguing the BART system.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The impasse is centered on worker and rider \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gu8diNs7EE\">safety issues\u003c/a> raised by \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/\">Service Employees International Union 1021\u003c/a>, representing maintenance workers and electricians, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/\">Amalgamated Transit Union 1555\u003c/a>, representing station agents and train operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART track safety trainer Saul Almanza said inadequate lighting in the system’s tunnels puts workers and riders at risk. The unions also want more staffing early in the morning and late, as well as and bulletproof glass in station-agent booths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations also have stalled over wages and employee pension and health care contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been some progress, very slow progress,” Almanza said. “But on the issues that really concern our members – safety, and, of course, benefits and pensions and wages – we’re nowhere near close to getting that resolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART officials have repeatedly called the safety issues raised by the unions a “smoke screen,” insisting contract negotiations are not the place to raise them. BART spokesman Rick Rice said the system can’t remain sustainable if employees continue to contribute \u003ca href=\"http://bartlabornews.com/?cat=13\">nothing to pensions\u003c/a> and pay a flat \u003ca href=\"http://bartlabornews.com/?cat=14\">$92 per month for health care\u003c/a>, regardless of the number of dependents. The gulf between each side's suggested wage increases over the next four years is vast, with the unions initially proposing 23 percent and BART proposing 4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not part of the negotiations,” Rice said. “The district’s budget for 2014 has $4.5 million in the budget for new lighting in the tunnels. And frankly, union leaders have a chance to meet weekly and monthly to discuss issues like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice said BART officials were back at the negotiating table today despite the strike authorization vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does seem a little selfish to threaten to put the Bay Area in chaos for a 23 percent pay increase, no pension contribution and very limited benefit contributions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unions disagree and filed a \u003ca href=\"http://apps.alameda.courts.ca.gov/domainweb/service?ServiceName=DomainWebService&TemplateName=jsp/complitcase.html&currBatchNbr=1&caseID=5037325&CaseNbr=RG13684861\">lawsuit\u003c/a> in Alameda County Superior Court Monday asking the court to force BART to negotiate on worker safety. BART called in a state mediator to try to break the deadlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the contracts expire Sunday at midnight without a deal, union bargaining teams are now authorized to call a strike, and Bay Area commuters are nervous. Tom Radulovich, president of the BART board of directors, asked Gov. Jerry Brown not to impose a 60-day cooling-off period, which would shift a potential work stoppage into a busier season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as crucially, the issues of pension and health care contributions, salary increases and work rules should be settled now and not postponed,” Radulovich \u003ca href=\"http://bartlabornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BART-Board-President-letter-to-Governor.pdf\">wrote to Brown yesterday\u003c/a>. “An unnecessary delay of 60 days would only put off hard choices that will have to be made in order to reach an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A BART shutdown may be disastrous, warn transit officials. The Bay Area \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtc.ca.gov/news/press_releases/rel610.htm\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission is urging\u003c/a> commuters to work from home or at least avoid rush hour, warning of “thousands more vehicles than usual” expected to clog streets and highways. The commission today approved \u003ca href=\"http://apps.mtc.ca.gov/meeting_packet_documents/agenda_2075/10_ContingencyTransit_Service_Handout.Revised.6.26.13.pdf\">$20 million in emergency funding\u003c/a> to provide alternative transportation in the event of a BART strike. The money would come mostly from up to $18.7 million in state funding to BART that the MTC has the authority to redirect to other agencies if necessary, MTC executive director Steve Heminger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will also be sending letters to employers in the region encouraging them to work with employees to find alternatives to driving during peak commute hours, MTC officials said. Telecommuting will be encouraged, as well as carpooling or using alternative transit services such as Alameda-Contra Costa Transit buses or ferries across the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART provides about 400,000 rides daily, including 96,000 across the Bay in the Transbay Tube during peak commute hours, which is 50% more than when BART workers last held a strike in 1997, Heminger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that, \"the impact is likely to be even more substantial,\" Heminger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The supplemental services ... can in no way fully replace BART's capacity in the event of a work stoppage,\" Heminger wrote in his request to the commission. \"But these services can make a bad situation somewhat better for a considerable number of travelers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R908140900\" target=\"_blank\">when BART workers voted to authorize a strike\u003c/a>, contingency preparations were made before the strike was averted at the last minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a very legitimate fear that the city is going to be paralyzed,” San Francisco Supervisor David Campos said. “We rely heavily on the BART system. I am very worried about what it would mean for the city.” He said he was unaware of any city contingency plan should BART shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other transportation agencies are balking at trying to pick up BART’s slack. Members of \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu192.org/\">ATU Local 192\u003c/a>, representing AC Transit workers, also have authorized a strike for a contract set to expire Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ATU Local 192 President Yvonne Williams called absorbing BART’s 400,000 daily riders “probably impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We carry close to 200,000 passengers a day,” she said. “We’re not equipped or able to absorb the additional 400,000 passengers a day, and we feel that would place our operators and the riding public in imminent danger.” Williams stopped short of saying AC Transit would strike if BART does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides in the BART negotiations are back at the bargaining table today. The unions have said they will give notice 72 hours before striking. Concerned commuters can sign up for strike alerts and learn more about \u003ca href=\"http://bartlabornews.com/\">BART’s position\u003c/a> on the system’s website. \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/\">SEIU 1021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/\">ATU 1555\u003c/a> also have information online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daly City resident Shenalya King, like many in the Bay Area, was distraught when she learned about the possible strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/transportation/private-contractor-struggles-to-deliver-public-bus/\">Zusha Elinson\u003c/a>, The Bay Citizen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/06/fairfield-case-raises-doubts-about-private-contracts-for-public-buses/baycitizenlogo-48/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90792\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90792\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Cash-strapped cities embracing private contractors as saviors of their public transportation systems may find a cautionary tale in Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suburban city halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco was the headquarters of MV Transportation, a rising star in public transit outsourcing. But the company failed to deliver the bus service it promised its hometown, emails, documents and interviews show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90816\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/06/fairfield-case-raises-doubts-about-private-contracts-for-public-buses/fiarfield-bus-michael-short-bay-citizen/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90816\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Fiarfield-bus-Michael-Short-Bay-Citizen-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"A rider waits to board the Solano Express in Fairfield. (Michael Short/The Bay Citizen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rider waits to board the Solano Express in Fairfield. (Michael Short/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between 2008 and 2010, the company was fined 295 times by local\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>transit officials for poor performance, including too many accidents, missed bus runs and late buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of private contractors has grown dramatically in California. Contractors ran 223 million miles of bus and train service in the state in 2011, a 42 percent increase in a decade, according to the National Transit Database. Last year, they picked up 166 million riders in California, up 29 percent. Government-run public transit systems still carried far more riders last year with 1.2 billion, a slight dip from a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the Bay Area, a stronghold of public employee unions, officials are more eagerly considering outsourcing public transit to save money. Alameda County is mulling contracting out bus routes in the growing suburbs of Fremont and Newark, managed for decades by AC Transit. Last summer, Marin County officials considered outsourcing bus service to a private company, deciding against it only when the public agency cut its price to compete.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the arrangements are not all unmitigated successes. Some fall short of heralded savings. Others bring lower wages and less bus service. In Fairfield, then-Transit Manager George Fink said he couldn’t hold politically connected MV Transportation to the contract, calling it a wake-up call to transit agencies thinking about outsourcing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders like retiree Albert Sanchez are the collateral damage. One sunny afternoon, Sanchez and his wife waited for a bus from the mall in Fairfield to their home a few miles away, in Suisun City. Sanchez said the outsourced Fairfield and Suisun Transit – known as FAST – has failed to live up to its optimistic acronym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bus is always late. It’s always late,” said Sanchez, an inveterate public transit user who moved from San Francisco eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said that the previous week, he’d waited at the stop for two hours. One Friday, he walked four miles home because buses stop running at 8:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents and interviews reinforce Fink’s allegations that the Fairfield City Council and his bosses frequently intervened. Once, Fink said, he clocked the time between his criticism of MV Transportation and a call from his boss, Assistant Public Works Director Wayne Lewis, at 32 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis, who now leads FAST, said Fink was a rigid manager who always stuck to the “letter of the law.” Lewis added, however, that he understood the frustration city employees feel when contractors “have access to elected officials and staff doesn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MV Transportation has been a generous donor to local charities and pumped tens of thousands into low-dollar Fairfield City Council races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that was critical, 89 percent of the time, it would circle back to us,” Fink said. “They would engage the City Council, and they would call the city manager and then he would talk to me and tell me to back off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Fink’s five-year tenure in Fairfield, which ended in 2010, records and interviews show he was ordered not to issue an audit critical of MV Transportation and to stop penalizing the company for poor performance, and his staff was ordered to halt regular bus inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Timm, a city councilman until 2011, said the company gained no special access to city leaders and praised its performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a councilmember and as a citizen, they were great community partners, and they did an excellent job,” Timm said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timm prefaced his comments by noting that he was “friends with the boss,” former MV Transportation CEO Jon Monson. Timm also received a $10,000 campaign donation from the company in 2007, according to state campaign finance filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristina Russell, an MV Transportation spokeswoman, declined to comment, saying, “A response would unnecessarily cast a negative light on a positive relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other agencies consider contracting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, even the possibility of contracting out some bus routes in Fremont and Newark worries AC Transit Director Chris Peeples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mainly what it would do is screw the union,” Peeples said. “The contracted-out systems are a whole lot cheaper because of less compensation per hour and dramatically less in benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Haggerty, an Alameda County supervisor leading a policy advisory committee to study “Tri-City and Tri-Valley Transit” for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said transit agencies that use private companies have done a better job than AC Transit at keeping costs down. But Haggerty emphasized that no decision has been made and talks are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, David Rzepinski, general manager of the Marin County Transit District, which serves the scenic county’s 255,000 residents, went shopping for a company to run the district’s buses. Rzepinski had been paying Golden Gate Transit $133 an hour. He found that private companies would do the work for between $92 and $115 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus drivers union protested. With the threat of contracting hanging over the negotiations, Golden Gate lowered its rate to $120 an hour, so Marin Transit ended up sticking with the incumbent. The new deal will help balance the budget, Rzepinski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friction with transit staff\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With public transportation in the suburbs, some problems are embedded in city planning, or lack thereof. Cities like Fairfield are built for cars and often are too spread out to justify extended hours or more regular service. But problems such as late buses and accidents are more closely related to management and oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fink arrived in Fairfield in 2005, MV Transportation already was running the bus system, which carries about 1 million passengers a year. When the city put the contract out to bid again, he and other city officials added penalties for poor service. MV won an $18.2 million, four-year contract. Soon after, the fines started rolling in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a two-year period beginning in 2008, the company was fined 295 times for a total of $164,000, according to a 2010 city audit, released in place of the one Fink sought to issue. MV was fined for the 14 months when the preventable accident rate exceeded the allowed 1 per 100,000 miles. FAST officials fined MV nine times for not meeting the agreed-upon 90 percent on-time arrival rate and 18 times for buses that never showed at all. The company was penalized twice for drivers using cellphones while driving, six times for drivers speeding and 13 times for drivers being out of uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MV executives were furious about the fines. In meetings with the FAST staff, they complained they were “losing money” and the deal they signed was too punitive, according to meeting notes and internal memos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the friction between Fink and the company peaked in the summer of 2009, Monson, then MV’s board chairman, made $10,000 campaign donations to City Councilman John Mraz and City Councilwoman Catherine Moy. Those were hefty sums, even in a city with no campaign contribution limits. When contacted for comment, Mraz called Fink an expletive and hung up the phone. Moy did not return emails or phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fines, inspections put aside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monson and other executives began to meet directly with the City Council instead of city transit staff. In a 2010 memo, Lewis – the assistant public works director – complained that the “city has allowed MV to circumvent the normal management chain. Often, local issues are discussed and resolved without the input of transit staff by the City Manager’s office, City Council, and MV executives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fines against MV were halted by the city for months, and old ones weren’t paid as the city manager overruled some on appeal. Bus inspections that had been yielding fines also were stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Lewis said he killed an audit of MV ordered by Fink because it was too punitive. He said that while many of the fines were valid, “there were enough of them that … would seem like they were frivolous,” such as one for a bus driver’s untucked shirttail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis added that Fairfield and Suisun Transit and MV Transportation are “in a good place now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But problems persisted after Fink left in 2010. The bus service performance “exhibited mostly negative trends in all areas” related to efficiency and productivity, according to a 2010 audit by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which oversees transit funding in the Bay Area. An MV spokeswoman declined to comment, and Lewis did not return calls seeking comment on the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in June 2011, an MV Transportation bus operator was involved in a fatal collision. The bus driver, identified as Dale Lee Karuza in multiple lawsuits, was turning left across a Suisun City street when he collided with an oncoming car, killing a passenger. Police cited the primary cause of the collision as the bus failing to yield right of way, according to the California Highway Patrol’s summary. Investigators also concluded that the car was speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fink now works at the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission in Stockton. Reflecting back on his time in Fairfield, he said it taught him a lesson about outsourcing public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a contractor that wanted to run the business and not maximize their profit at every turn, then it would be fine,” Fink said. “As it tends to work out, you’re spending 85 percent of the time making sure that they’re doing everything in the contract instead of doing the things you need to be doing, like getting grant money doing transit planning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One sunny afternoon, Sanchez and his wife waited for a bus from the mall in Fairfield to their home a few miles away, in Suisun City. Sanchez said the outsourced Fairfield and Suisun Transit – known as FAST – has failed to live up to its optimistic acronym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bus is always late. It’s always late,” said Sanchez, an inveterate public transit user who moved from San Francisco eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said that the previous week, he’d waited at the stop for two hours. One Friday, he walked four miles home because buses stop running at 8:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents and interviews reinforce Fink’s allegations that the Fairfield City Council and his bosses frequently intervened. 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Timm also received a $10,000 campaign donation from the company in 2007, according to state campaign finance filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristina Russell, an MV Transportation spokeswoman, declined to comment, saying, “A response would unnecessarily cast a negative light on a positive relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other agencies consider contracting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, even the possibility of contracting out some bus routes in Fremont and Newark worries AC Transit Director Chris Peeples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mainly what it would do is screw the union,” Peeples said. “The contracted-out systems are a whole lot cheaper because of less compensation per hour and dramatically less in benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Haggerty, an Alameda County supervisor leading a policy advisory committee to study “Tri-City and Tri-Valley Transit” for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said transit agencies that use private companies have done a better job than AC Transit at keeping costs down. 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FAST officials fined MV nine times for not meeting the agreed-upon 90 percent on-time arrival rate and 18 times for buses that never showed at all. The company was penalized twice for drivers using cellphones while driving, six times for drivers speeding and 13 times for drivers being out of uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MV executives were furious about the fines. In meetings with the FAST staff, they complained they were “losing money” and the deal they signed was too punitive, according to meeting notes and internal memos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the friction between Fink and the company peaked in the summer of 2009, Monson, then MV’s board chairman, made $10,000 campaign donations to City Councilman John Mraz and City Councilwoman Catherine Moy. Those were hefty sums, even in a city with no campaign contribution limits. When contacted for comment, Mraz called Fink an expletive and hung up the phone. Moy did not return emails or phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fines, inspections put aside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monson and other executives began to meet directly with the City Council instead of city transit staff. In a 2010 memo, Lewis – the assistant public works director – complained that the “city has allowed MV to circumvent the normal management chain. Often, local issues are discussed and resolved without the input of transit staff by the City Manager’s office, City Council, and MV executives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fines against MV were halted by the city for months, and old ones weren’t paid as the city manager overruled some on appeal. Bus inspections that had been yielding fines also were stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Lewis said he killed an audit of MV ordered by Fink because it was too punitive. He said that while many of the fines were valid, “there were enough of them that … would seem like they were frivolous,” such as one for a bus driver’s untucked shirttail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis added that Fairfield and Suisun Transit and MV Transportation are “in a good place now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But problems persisted after Fink left in 2010. The bus service performance “exhibited mostly negative trends in all areas” related to efficiency and productivity, according to a 2010 audit by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which oversees transit funding in the Bay Area. An MV spokeswoman declined to comment, and Lewis did not return calls seeking comment on the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in June 2011, an MV Transportation bus operator was involved in a fatal collision. The bus driver, identified as Dale Lee Karuza in multiple lawsuits, was turning left across a Suisun City street when he collided with an oncoming car, killing a passenger. 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"content": "\u003cp>So you thought the elections were over?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not just yet. Backers of a measure to fund transportation in Alameda County on Monday formally reserved the right to request a recount of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81126\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BART1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-81126 \" title=\"BART\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BART1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measure B1 would help fund an extension of BART to Livermore, among other projects. (John Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Measure B1 calls for an increased sales tax and bonds to help pay for improvement to roads, bicycle routes, bus service and an extension of BART to Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it includes a tax increase -- from the current 0.5 percent to a full 1 percent -- it needs a two-thirds majority of votes to pass. But after the Nov. 6 elections, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters counted 350,899 votes (66.53 percent) in favor and 176,504 (33.47 percent) against. If a recount found about 700 more \"yes\" votes, the measure would pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The mandate is clearly there from Alameda County voters,\" said Arthur Dao, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.alamedactc.org/\">Alameda County Transportation Commission\u003c/a>, which floated the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/documents/2012-11-06MeasureB1.pdf\">The Registrar of Voters' summary and arguments on B1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/current_election/index.htm\">The official vote tally\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The registrar certified the vote last Wednesday, and the ATC had just five days to request a recount, meaning the deadline was Monday, Dao said. The ATC hasn't officially decided that it wants the recount to be done, but is formally requesting one so it doesn't lose the opportunity, he said. \"It is highly likely we will request a recount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount would begin Monday or Tuesday, said Alameda County Registrar of Voters Dave Macdonald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATC would have to pay for the recount, and Macdonald said the cost would depend on whether the ATC wants the votes tallied by hand or by machine, but would be \"many thousands of dollars.\" He said there is no reason to assume that the count will be different; previous recounts he has directed have changed \"maybe one vote.\" \"But we're happy to take their money.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Measure B1 fails, transportation projects in Alameda County will continue to get funding from a half-cent per dollar sales tax imposed by Measure B1's predecessor, Measure B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that tax expires in 2022. And even now the county is not keeping up with its transportation needs, Dao said. Many streets are not well paved, the AC Transit bus system has been cutting service since 2008, demand for transportation is increasing and new state legislation requires the county to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B1 would help meet those needs, said Dao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"www.VoteNoMeasureB1.com\">Opponents\u003c/a> say in the official ballot arguments that the measure is a \"massive tax increase\" to \"fund inefficient, expensive, and underutilized public transportation systems at the expense of automobile drivers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Measure B1 ultimately fails, the ATC is very likely to put a new measure before voters, Dao said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/clipper-cards-reveal-travelers-police/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78325\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>San Francisco police arrested Marcel Largaespada on April 30 after a gunpoint robbery at a Lombard Street business, but they couldn’t catch his alleged accomplice, Alan McCahill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCahill gave officers the slip, investigators believed, by hopping on a Muni bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was caught days later. 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Personal data can be stored for seven years after a Clipper account is closed, according to the commission’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, a new smartphone app, called FareBot, allows anyone to scan a Clipper card and find out where the owner has been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say the transportation commission should not store data on individuals’ locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As with all location information, Clipper cards can tell quite a bit about a person – it could show that a person got off BART at a rally,” said Chris Conley, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union on Northern California. “Clipper is one place that collects this data that people might not really be aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said that three search warrants or subpoenas was a relatively low number and that people’s private information is well protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absent a subpoena or a search warrant, we would not turn over any information,” Goodwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit riders can remain anonymous if they pay for a Clipper card in cash and do not register it, he noted. People who don’t register stand to lose any money on their card if it is lost, stolen or stops working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the new app that scans Clipper cards for travel information, Goodwin said he was “completely unconcerned” because there is “no personally identifiable information on the card.” He said Clipper might even roll out a similar app so people can access their travel history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the robbery getaway, prosecutors wrote in the subpoena that McCahill “is believed to have used his Clipper card to escape from police.” But it turned out that the suspect had not used the card to pay his fare – or perhaps had not traveled on Muni at all. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission didn’t have any data related to McCahill’s alleged escape, said Pam Grove, a commission spokeswoman. The case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, an attorney for the family of a man who died after a fall on a Muni Metro train sought Clipper card records to determine which train he was riding. Hin Don, 81, fell after the operator of the M line allegedly jerked the train forward before the elderly man could sit down. Don suffered bleeding in his brain and went into a coma for a month before dying Dec. 25, 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Geerhart, a lawyer for Don’s family, sued the city. Geerhart said he wanted to depose the train operator, but the city wouldn’t tell him which train or operator was involved. For that reason, he said he subpoenaed Don’s Clipper card information to find out which train he’d been riding. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission handed over the information, and Geerhart plans to depose the train operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the third instance, a San Francisco police officer obtained a search warrant seeking information about the credit card that an unnamed person used to purchase a Clipper card, saying it could help in the investigation of an unspecified felony. The police also asked for “dates and exact times and exact locations where this Clipper card was used.” A police spokesman declined to comment on the warrant. Grove said the transportation commission didn’t have any information to turn over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights advocates say there might be few requests for Clipper card information because law enforcement officials have easy access to cellphone location data. 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